'Off duty officer' shoots attacker after five injured in Paris Eurostar hub blade rampage
Police have arrested a suspect after opening fire and wounding him during the incident at Gare Du Nord station in the French capital where five people were injured.
An off-duty police officer has shot and arrested a man in his 30s who injured five people including a police officer during a bladed attack in Paris, local reports have said. A police source told journalists an officer had used their weapon towards the man carrying "home-made" blade at the Paris train station Gare du Nord. Suspect is hospitalised and in critical condition.
A security perimeter was installed around a couple of train tracks at Gare du Nord, causing delays ranging from a few minutes to nearly an hour.
Some local trains were cancelled.
However, the incident has not caused any delays to Eurostar, which has a hub at Gare du Nord.
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The attack took place around 6.45am this morning (Wednesday, January 11) in the station and is being looked at by criminal investigators rather than anti-terror police.
The reason for the attack is currently unknown.
The off-duty police officer in civilian clothes was on his way home when he reportedly subdued the man by shooting him in the arm and chest, a source told the publication Europe1. According to the publication, a policeman from the Border Police (PAF) is among those injured.
The French Minister of the Interior,
Gerald Darmanin, thanked the police on Twitter for their "effective and courageous response" to the attack.
He said the man was "quickly neutralised".
Mr Darmanin and Parisian police Chief, Laurent Nunez and the mayor, Anne Hidalgo visited the station at 9.00am.
In a statement, Mr Dermanin confirmed the first attack started at 6.42am and at 6.43am the suspect was shot.
He said that without "extremely rapid intervention" the consequences would have been far worse.
He said the identity of the suspect, who was left in critical condition, will be known "in the next few hours" and said the blade used was homemade and "not a knife".
Four of the victims, including the wounded police officer, are slightly injured and a fifth is "more seriously injured" said Mr Dermanin. The fifth victim is reportedly a woman who is "hospitalised" but not in "absolute emergency".
According to local sources, in the first attack the man threw himself onto a man in the station’s forecourt and stabbed him fifteen times, leaving him seriously injured.
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